Republicanisms and Peninsular Republics: From Failure to Victory of the Republican Idea in the Iberian Context (1880-1914)

Abstract

How did the Spanish First Republic influence the Portuguese Republican movement and, consequently the process of institutionalization of the political party which overthrew the monarchical regime on October 1910? Not less relevant, what were the repercussions of the Spanish republican experience in the constitution of an ideological corpus according to the republican ideals in the Portuguese context, as well as the respective evolution from the 80s of the 19th century until the advent of the Great War? Such constitute the axial issues of the developed analysis, based on the critical and contextualized approaches of the historical representations and narratives conceived by Zófimo Consiglieri Pedroso (1851-1910) and Victor Ribeiro (1862-1930) in 1887 and 1912, respectively. Substantiated through a qualitative methodological perspective, applied to primary sources, complemented by the confrontation with the critical readings of documental backgrounds relevant to the study of Portuguese republicanism, this approach seeks an analytical diversification of the topic in question. Emphasizing the considerable historiographical work, produced on the relations between the Iberian republican movements, it is intended to expand this effort through the use of republican historical representation and discourse, as well as their projection in differentiated and decisive contexts for the affirmation of republicanism in Portugal. In particular, our perspective addresses the contributions of the Spanish experience to the internal debate on the nature of the regime and the correlation established between the endogenous internal rupture and the emergence of a European pan-Latin entente.